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Johnnie Armstrong Memorial

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Teviothead is the site where Johnie Armstrong, a noted reiver, met James V under an assurance of safe conduct

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James broke his word and hanged Johnie together with all his company At the kirkyard, there is a memorial stone to the hanged reiver:

John murdered was at Carlinrigg
And all his gallant companie;
But Scotland's heart was neer sac wae
To see sae mony brave men die

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